| Acronym | Meaning |
| SBA | Slurry Blasting Agents |
| HUD | Housing And Urban Development |
| FERP | Field Emission Retarding Potential |
| SRBSN | Sintered Reaction-bonded Silicon Nitride |
| BSAF | Biota-to-sediment Accumulation Factor |
| FC | Frozen Core (approxn. For Electron-atom Scattering Calcns.) |
| HSC | Health And Safety Commission (UK) |
| GOCE | Gaussian Overlap Potential With Const. Well Depth |
| SPEG | Solid Phase Epitaxial Growth |
| MPSS | Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing |