| Acronym | Meaning |
| TD | Thermal Desorption |
| SCM | Self-consistent Multipolar (method In Metal Cluster Calcns.) |
| DIM | Dissolved Inorganic Matter |
| BIAS | Bismuth-active Substance (in Surfactant Concn. Detn. In Environmental Tests) |
| QSERR | Quantitative Structure-enantioselective Retention Relationships |
| CALUX | Chemical-activated Luciferase Expression |
| FARCE | Freezing At Reactive Centers Of Enzymes |
| SED | Spectral Energy Distribution |
| SQL | Standard Quantum Limit |
| ETB | Extended Tight-binding (method For Electronic-structure Calcns.) |