| Acronym | Meaning |
| HGCU | Hot-gas Particulate Cleanup |
| CFHH-GLF | CFHH-generalized Laguerre Function |
| LEFI | Local Electric Field Instrument |
| ELDOR | Electron Double Resonance |
| PET | Poly(ethylene Terephthalate) |
| CETTP | Complex Effluent Toxicity Testing Program (US EPA) |
| STAD | Simple Town Air Dispersion Model (of Air Pollution) |
| SAFIR | Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory |
| ERCS | Emergency Response Cleanup Services |
| SNOM | Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy |