| Acronym | Meaning |
| JOIDES | Joint Oceanographic Institutions For Deep Earth Sampling |
| CAI | Conodont Alteration Index |
| IMSD | Information Management And Services Division |
| CAC | Critical Aggregation Concentration |
| ALR | Augmenter Of Liver Regeneration |
| CSRO | Chemical Short-range Order |
| IHP | Inositol Hexaphosphate |
| BBXRT | Broad Band X-Ray Telescope |
| PFT | Pulmonary Functional Test(s) |
| CLIP | Corticotropin-Like Intermediate-lobe Peptide |