| Acronym | Meaning |
| CRSS | Critical Resolved Shear Stress |
| 2PPE | Two-photon Photoemission |
| BLIS | BACT/LAER Information System |
| SHS | Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis |
| IRR | Internal Rate Of Return |
| CCMS | Committee On Challenges Of Modern Society (NATO) |
| EISCAT | European Incoherent Scatter Radar (atm. Sensing) |
| CEIC | Caribbean Environmental Information Center |
| OHFS | Optimized Hartree-Fock-Slater |
| FETAX | Frog Embryo Teratogenesis Assay-Xenopus |