| Acronym | Meaning |
| ZDDP | Zinc Dialkyl Dithiophosphate |
| CD ROM | Compact Disk Read Only Memory |
| MCL | Maximum Contaminant Level |
| RPA | RNase Protection Assay |
| RIA | Reactivity Initiated Accident |
| AMBER | Assisted Model Building With Energy Refinement |
| RMBPT | Relativistic Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| NLS | Nuclear Localization Signal |
| DAEM | Distributed Activation Energy Model |
| CMP | Cartilage Matrix Protein |