| Acronym | Meaning |
| CKD | Cement Kiln Dust |
| ICCIDD | International Council For Control Of Iodine Deficiency Disorders |
| NESC | National Environmental Supercomputing Center |
| OERR | Office Of Emergency And Remedial Response |
| DIN | Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen |
| VMD | Vacuum Membrane Distillation |
| LAP | Latency-associated Peptide |
| GCAM | Global Change Assessment Modeling |
| SOMBT | Second-order Many-body Theory |
| HNE | Human Neutrophil Elastase |