| Acronym | Meaning |
| AOTS | Acoustic Optic Tunable Scanning |
| BEC | Bose-Einstein Condensation |
| RICE | UK Regular Interlaboratory Counting Exchange (for Asbestos Analysis) |
| RP/M | Reinforced Plastics/mortar |
| ADPD | Angular-dependent Photoelectron Diffraction |
| CART | Cocaine And Amphetamine Regulated Transcript |
| VSD | Virtually Safe Dose |
| DSPB | Distorted-wave Strong-potential Born (approxn.) |
| IAWPRC | International Association For Water Pollution Research And Control |
| ECGF | Endothelial Cell Growth Factor |