| Acronym | Meaning |
| EMTB | Effective-medium Tight-binding |
| MCCP | Mountain Cloud Chemistry Program |
| COSHH | Control Of Substances Hazardous To Health (UK) |
| ANMR | Acoustic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| MMP | Matrix Metalloproteinase |
| PPLN | Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate |
| ODCPA | Off-diagonal (disorder) Coherent-potential Approxn. |
| SRS | Symmetrized Rayleigh-Schroedinger (perturbation Theory) |
| LDR | Land Disposal Restriction(s) |
| STS | Surface Tunnelling Spectroscopy |