| Acronym | Meaning |
| CALCOFI | California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations |
| UTS | Ultimate Tensile Strength |
| QED | Quantum Electrodynamics |
| HIT | Hazard Information Transmission |
| ACEI | Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor |
| PPS | Poly (phenylene Sulfide) |
| GIP | Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide |
| DIDMOAD | Diabetes Insipidus |
| SGMP | Sol-gel-microsphere Pelletization |
| ADPKD | Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease |