| Acronym | Meaning |
| CARA | Chemical Assessments And Related Activities |
| IDF | International Dairy Federation |
| MAS | Molecular Absorption Spectroscopy |
| CMV | Cucumber Mosaic Virus |
| SHED | Sealed Housing For Evaporative Detn. |
| PFZ | Polar Frontal Zone |
| ALAD | Delta-aminolevulinic Acid Dehydratase (lead Poisoning Indicator) |
| SINK | Saturation Internuclear Kinetics |
| ETI | Environmental Testing Industry |
| LSD-SCF | Local Superdirect-self-consistent Field |