| Acronym | Meaning |
| BEAR | Business And Environmentalists In An Alliance For Recycling |
| TPW | Transformed Plane Wave Method |
| EDN | Eosinophil-derived Neurotoxin |
| SHOA | Second-harmonic Optical Activity |
| GCFR | Gas-cooled Fast Reactor |
| FFTB | Final Focus Test Beam |
| JET | Joint European Torus |
| OCOS | Orbital Charge-ordering State |
| VS | Volatile Solids |
| HIPE | High Internal Phase Emulsion |