| Acronym | Meaning |
| WXO | Weather [Executive] Officer |
| NREL | U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| LBJ | Lady Bird Johnson - Light Bulb Joke - Little Beagle Johnson (LBJ's Dog) - Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| PPQN | Pulses Per Quarter Note (ditto) |
| BTU | British Thermal Unit |
| RB | Running Back (football) |
| PTFE | PolyTetraFluoroEthylene |
| COPUS | U.K. Committee On The Public Understanding Of Science |
| USDI | United States Department Of The Interior |
| NIH | National Institutes Of Health - Not Invented Here |