| Acronym | Meaning |
| USDW | Underground Source Drinking Water |
| CFU | Colony Forming Unit (for Bacteria Counting In Water Disinfection) |
| MSF | Multi-stage Flash Distillation Plant |
| BK-DOK | Berufkrankeit Dokumentation (German Occupational Disease Documentation) |
| PROW | Protein Reviews On The Web |
| DARTAB | Dose And Risk Assessment Tabulation |
| DMPP | 1,1-dimethyl-4-phenylpiperazinium Iodide |
| MESIMS | Matrix-enhanced Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry |
| PDK | Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase |
| MPDS | Moment-polarized Dirac-Slater |