| Acronym | Meaning |
| VNS | Vicarious Nucleophilic Substitution |
| RQCAR | Reportable Quantities For Carcinogens In Hazardous Waste |
| FD | Field Desorption |
| VPD | Vapor Phase Decomposition |
| ZBLANP | Zirconium Barium Lanthanum Aluminum Sodium Lead Fluoride |
| TM | Thematic Mapper (Remote Sensing) |
| PBM | Proton Beam Micromachining |
| LOPT | Large-order Perturbation Theory |
| SPE | Solar Proton Event |
| MIRIS | Multiple Internal Reflection IR Spectroscopy |