| Acronym | Meaning |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| BILE | Beam Induced Light Emission |
| FCD | Fault Consequence Digraph |
| RAFT | Reversible Addition-fragmentation Chain Transfer [polymerization] |
| QC | Quality Control |
| NMA | Nuclear Microanalysis |
| UCG | Underground Coal Gasification |
| VLG | Varying Localized Geminal |
| SLBO | Strictly Localized Bond Orbital |
| ATE | Automatic Test Equipment |