| Acronym | Meaning |
| DISC | Death-inducing Signaling Complex |
| AFRSI | Advanced Flexible Reusable Surface Insulation |
| MEV | Mink Enteritis Virus |
| BRC | Basic Regulatory Control |
| ESID | Electron Stimulated Ion Desorption |
| WRC | Water Resources Council |
| TMB | Table Mesa Basalt (USGS Rock Standard) |
| DAF | Distributed Approximating Functional (in Study Of Quantal Wave-packet Propagation) |
| ZAAS | Zeeman Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy |
| FTVS | Fourier Transform Visible Spectroscopy |