| Acronym | Meaning |
| OIA | Office Of International Activities |
| CHEQ | Chelation Enhanced Quenching |
| HPCZE | High Performance Capillary Zone Electrophoresis |
| PHRED | Public Health Risk Evaluation Data |
| ADA | American Diabetes Association |
| VPD | Vapor Phase Decomposition |
| CATSAT | Cooperative Astrophysics And Technology Satellite |
| XMA | X-ray Microanalysis |
| PDPID | Pulsed Discharge Photoionization Detector |
| NLCR | Nonlinear Continuum Regression |