| Acronym | Meaning |
| OSM | US Office Of Surface Mining Reclamation And Enforcement |
| FPGS | Folylpolyglutamate Synthetasepar |
| HETG | High-energy Transmission Grating |
| GT | Gas Turbine |
| NHLBI | National Heart |
| ASPCR | Allele-specific Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| BLP | Bragg Light Profile |
| LAL | Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (endotoxin Test) |
| TFDW | Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-Von Weizsaecker (method For Electronic Structure Calcns. On Mols.) |
| SPIS | Surface Penning Ionization Spectroscopy |