| Acronym | Meaning |
| CPE | Coulomb Wave-plane Wave (description With) Effective Screening |
| OVD | Outside Vapor Deposition |
| ARE | Androgen-responsive Element |
| VUV | Vacuum Ultraviolet |
| ESPT | Excited-state Proton Transfer |
| LPP | Laser-produced Plasma |
| PCR | Photo-Conductive Resonance |
| NOW | Nonhazardous Oil Field Waste |
| MRCEPA | Multireference Coupled-electron-pair Approxn. |
| NMCSCF | Numerical Multiconfiguration Self-consistent Field |