| Acronym | Meaning |
| ALK | Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase |
| DCTP | Direct-current Tast Polarography |
| LEPS | London-Eyring-Polanyi-Sato (potential-energy Surface) |
| BCS | British Chemical Standard |
| NPRA | National Petroleum Refiners Association |
| RPECVD | Remote Plasma-enhanced Chemical-vapor Deposition |
| BWCC | Brillouin-Wigner Coupled-cluster (theory) |
| GID | Grazing Incidence Diffraction |
| WTA | Wind Trajectory Analysis (for Airborne Particulate Samples) |
| LAN | Local-area Network |