| Acronym | Meaning |
| SPINDO | Spectroscopic Potentials Adjusted Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap |
| DMCP | DOE Methods Compendium Program |
| SELDI | Surface-enhanced Laser Desorption Ionization Spectrometry |
| FRP | Fiber Reinforced Plastic |
| MSS | Mobile Servicing Station [space Station] |
| COOP | Crystal Orbital Overlap Population |
| HABR | Hybrid Anaerobic Baffled Reactor (for Wastewater Treatment) |
| NLPLS | Nonlinear Partial Least Squares |
| LSRA | Least-squares Regression Analysis |
| CIPSI | Configuration Interaction Perturbing A Multiconfigurational Zeroth-order Wave Function Selected Iteratively |