| Acronym | Meaning |
| VPD | Vapor Pressure Deficit |
| CCS | Classical Centrifugal Sudden (in Calcns. On Reactions) |
| MOVPE | Metallo-organic Vapor-phase Epitaxy |
| SCM | Shell-correction Method (in Calcns. For Metal Clusters) |
| VBXES | Valence Band X-ray Emission Spectroscopy |
| CRLAS | Cavity Ringdown Laser Absorption Spectroscopy |
| LCAT | Lecithin-cholesterol Acyltransferase |
| PREM | Preliminary Ref. Earth Model |
| OWVP | Outgoing Wave Variational Principle |
| SPPS | Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis |