| Acronym | Meaning |
| GFRC | Glass Fiber Reinforced Cement |
| BPFT | Bohm-Pines-Fock-Tani (Hamiltonian In Calcns. On Plasmons) |
| TSMS | Thermospray Mass Spectrometry |
| PAE | Postantibiotic Effect |
| EASOE | European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Expt. |
| MCM | Mesoporous Crystalline Material |
| IGCAR | Indira Gandhi Center Atomic Research |
| SMOW | Standard Mean Ocean Water |
| ISIRS | International Sorption Information Retrieval System |
| NHGRI | National Human Genome Research Institute |