| Acronym | Meaning |
| NPDWR | National Primary Drinking Water Regulations |
| CAMU | Corrective Action Management Unit |
| CPVC | Critical Pigment Volume Concentration |
| FRET | Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer |
| PWBE | Plane-wave Born Approxn. With Exchange |
| DASHO | Designated Agency Safety And Health Official |
| AACI | Association Of American Cancer Institutes |
| NGL | Natural Gas Liquid (usually Ethane Or Propane) |
| SCC-DVM | Self-consistent-charge-discrete-variational Method |
| CCG | Constant Crystal Growth (model) |