| Acronym | Meaning |
| ALICE | A Large Ion Collider Experiment |
| FBA | Fluorescent Brightening Agent |
| DERA | Defense Environmental Restoration Act |
| SGFET | Suspended Gate Field-effect Transistor |
| RPTP | Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase |
| IRFPA | IR Focal Plane Array |
| JOIDES | Joint Oceanographic Institutions For Deep Earth Sampling |
| PWSB | Plane-wave Second Born |
| EIE | Easily Ionized Element |
| CPM | Crucible Particle Metallurgy |