| Acronym | Meaning |
| SSE | Spinless Salpeter Equation |
| MCF | Mutually Consistent Field Method (in Calcns. On Intermolecular Interactions) |
| BTEX | Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl Benzene, And Xylene |
| CNLSD | Condensation Nucleation Light Scattering Detection |
| OSA | Optical Society Of America |
| DHPLC | Denaturing High-performance Liquid Chromatography |
| PUCHF | Perturbed Uncoupled Hartree-Fock |
| PRESS | Prediction Error Sum Of Squares |
| IRI | Industrial Research Institute |
| AIPLA | American Intellectual Property Law Assocn. |