| Acronym | Meaning |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
| WAXS | Wide-angle X-ray Scattering |
| PVAL | Polyvinyl Alcohol |
| LCMS | Liquid Chromatography-mass Spectrometry |
| BOC | Bond-order Conservation (model In Calcns. On Reactions) |
| EPC | European Patent Convention |
| SCDM | Self-consistent Diagrammatic Method (in Calcn. On Electronic Excitation Transfer) |
| COSS | Correlation Shift Scaling |
| CPFD | Coupled-pair Functional With Double Excitation |
| GDOES | Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectrometry |