| Acronym | Meaning |
| AEHA | Army Environmental Hygiene Agency |
| DBS | Dibutyl Sebacate |
| SIEC | Spherical Inertial Electrostatic Confinement |
| CNRS | Centre Nationale De La Recherche Scientifique (France) |
| EPSC | Excitatory Postsynaptic Current |
| GTP | Guanosine 5'-triphosphate |
| FDSO | Full Diagonal Second-order (approxn. To)-green Function |
| STR | Short Tandem Repeat |
| VBXPS | Valence Bond X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
| SSUSI | Special Sensor UV Spectrographic Imager |