| Acronym | Meaning |
| AUBF | Anaerobic Upflow Biofilter |
| FDMS | Field-desorption Mass Spectrometry |
| PORG | Photochemical Oxidants Review Group |
| DEPT | Distortionless Enhancement By Polarization Transfer |
| BAT | Back Arc Tectonics |
| DLTS | Deep-level Transient Spectroscopy |
| IRE | Interferon-responsive Element |
| SCSAG | Small-curvature Semiclassical Adiabatic Ground-state (tunneling Approxn.) |
| PETN | Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate |
| EBL | Electron-beam Lithography |