| Acronym | Meaning |
| TCVA | Total Culturable Virus Assay |
| ESAT | Environmental Services Assistance Team |
| ECE | Electrical Conductivity Of Saturation Extract (soils) |
| NF-E1 | Nuclear Factor Erythroid 1 |
| LMP | Laser Microprobe |
| ORBIT | On-line Retrieval Of Bibliographic Information Timesharing |
| BSE | Bulk Silicate Earth |
| CART | Cocaine And Amphetamine Regulated Transcript |
| ERMM | Effective R-matrix Model (in Reactive Electron-mol. Scattering) |
| PUFA | Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid |