| Acronym | Meaning |
| CBO | Crude Born-Oppenheimer (wave Functions) |
| HMPSA | Hot-melt Pressure-sensitive Adhesive |
| CCN | Cloud Condensation Nucleus |
| PECVD | Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| HCA | Heterocyclic Amine |
| SASA | Solvent-accessible Surface Area |
| LIS | Lightning Imaging Sensor |
| FETI | Fluorescence Energy Transfer Immunoassay |
| MCSCRF | Multiconfigurational Self-consistent Reaction Field |
| AP-PCR | Arbitrarily Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction |