| Acronym | Meaning |
| SNARL | Suggested No-adverse Response Level |
| FRET | Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer |
| CAIBE | Chemically Assisted Ion Beam Etching |
| DBP | Disinfection By Product |
| BDOC | Biodegradable Dissolved Organic Carbon |
| MSEL | Materials Science And Engineering Laboratory |
| RME | Reduced Matrix Equations |
| DARMA | Deterministic Autoregressive Moving Average |
| CLP | Contract Laboratory Protocols (EPA) |
| FONDA | First-order Nondegenerate Adiabatic (theory For Electron-mol. Inelastic Scattering) |