| Acronym | Meaning |
| OCEFT | Office Of Criminal Enforcement |
| ASW | Augmented Spherical Wave |
| NCDS | NASA Climate Data System |
| RDS | Reflectance-difference Spectroscopy |
| CCSC | Charge And Configuration Self-consistency |
| PTGS | Picosecond Transient Grating Spectroscopy |
| SGTF | Spherical Gaussian-type Function |
| PAHO | Pan American Health Organization |
| QCT | Quasiclassical Trajectory (method For Mol. Collision Calcns.) |
| RVLM | Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla |