| Acronym | Meaning |
| BAL | Bronchoalveolar Lavage |
| AWFCO | Automatic Waste Feed Cutoff |
| SDR | Spin-dependent Resonance |
| UDI | Utility Data Institute (power Generation) |
| ROSE | Remote Optical Sensing Of Emissions |
| UDWBA | Unitarized Disorted Wave Born Approxn. (for Scattering) |
| PIVCDW | Phase Integral Variational Continuum Distorted Wave |
| DRC | Dose Response Curve |
| DMTA | Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis |
| IGBP | International Geosphere Biosphere Programme |