| Acronym | Meaning |
| IES | Internal Eliminated Sequence |
| WERC | Waste-management Education & Research Consortium |
| NEA | Negative Electron Affinity |
| PCGC | Parallel Column Gas Chromatography |
| AMS | Alpha Methyl Styrene |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| BIIR | Brominated Isobutene-isoprene Rubber |
| PQL | Practical Quantitation Levels (of Pollutants |
| BRC | Basic Regulatory Control |
| AGNES | Absence Of Gradients And Nernstian Equilibrium Stripping |