| Acronym | Meaning |
| BLS | Brillouin Light Scattering |
| LEC | Liquid Encapsulated Czochralski |
| GLP | Good Laboratory Practices (US FDA) |
| MMLV | Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus |
| SIRM | Scanning Infrared Microscope |
| MCDF-EAL | Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock-extended Average Level (for Energy Levels And Wave Functions Calcn. For Atoms) |
| SPMD | Semipermeable Membrane Device |
| CLP | Contract Laboratory Protocols (EPA) |
| FIMS | Field Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
| OTIS | Oklahoma Telecommunications Interlibrary System |