| Acronym | Meaning |
| TMBP | Tin Mill Black Plate |
| GMISS | Gridded Model Information Support System |
| UERPIC | Underground Excavation And Rock Properties Information Center |
| CCL | Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List |
| PTC | Positive Temperature Coefficient [elec. Conducting Material] |
| SCLS | Spectral Collocation (by) Least Squares |
| CMP | Cytidine 5'-monophosphate |
| MPT | Matrix Perturbation Theory |
| VGAAS | Vapor Generation Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| SAS | Small Angle Scattering |