| Acronym | Meaning |
| NIF | National Ignition Facility |
| GCL | Geosynthetic Clay Liner |
| GSMT | Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope |
| SWIFT | Sandia Waste-Isolation Flow And Transport Model |
| DFT | Density-functional Theory |
| ACAT | Acyl-CoA: Cholesterol Acyltransferase |
| CGC | Capillary Gas Chromatography |
| CELDS | Computer Aided Environmental Legislative Data System |
| CRP | CAMP Receptor Protein |
| LIFS | Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy |