| Acronym | Meaning |
| LIF | Leukemia Inhibitory Factor |
| IRS | Internal Reflection Spectroscopy |
| HLW | High-Level Waste |
| VPAM | Variable Phase Amplitude Method (for Electron-atom Scattering) |
| CLEVER | Clinical Laboratory For Evaluation And Validation Of Epidemiologic Research |
| IGY | International Geophysical Year |
| CNTD | Chemical Nucleated Thermal Deposition |
| RPEHMO | Relativistically Parametrized Extended Hueckel MO |
| HKS | Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham (quantum Theory) |
| AMC | Advanced Molding Compound |