| Acronym | Meaning |
| GFN | Grain Fineness Number |
| CQED | Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics |
| WHWT | Water And Hazardous Waste Team |
| PAFT | Program For Alternative Fluorocarbon Toxicology Testing |
| VPSA | Vainshtein-Presnyakov-Sobelman Approxn. (for Excitation In Atom-ion Collisions) |
| AASIR | Advanced Atmospheric Sounding And Imaging Radiometer |
| MVC | Mechanical Vapor Compression |
| GFAAS | Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy |
| APWR | Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor |
| BIFET | Bipolar Field Effect Transistor |