| Acronym | Meaning |
| CWT | Centralized Waste Treatment |
| FOWL | Fossil Fuel Waste Leaching (computer Program) |
| NCCLS | National Committee For Clinical Laboratory Standards |
| UOP | Universal Oil Products |
| TSA | Trichostatin A |
| DMEM | Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium |
| CSACM | Canonical Statistical Adiabatic Channel Model (in Reactions) |
| MIBERS | Multi-ion-beam Reactive Sputtering |
| SCPT | Self-consistent-perturbation Theory |
| MVFF | Modified Valence Force Field |