| Acronym | Meaning |
| LASE | Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment |
| DWPE | Distorted-wave (with) Polarization (and) Exchange |
| VNS | Vicarious Nucleophilic Substitution |
| UHF-AA | Unrestricted Hartree-Fock (with Spin) Annihilation |
| AADO | Angular (momentum Conservation) Average Dipole Orientation Theory (in Io-mol. Reactions) |
| EEC | European Economic Community |
| GCG | Genetics Computer Group |
| STAS | Scientific And Technical Attribute And Element Set |
| CCF | Correlation Crystal Field |
| QALE | Quantitative Analysis Of Ligand Effects |