| Acronym | Meaning |
| IPM | Independent Particle Model |
| BPC | N-butylpyridinium Chloride |
| SFS | Saybolt Furol Seconds |
| CCL | Carotenoid-carrying Lipoprotein |
| FF-MBPT | Finite-field Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| BLEVE | Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion |
| GBCD | Grain Boundary Character Distribution |
| ATBN | Amine Terminated Butadiene Acrylonitrile (rubber) |
| FRP | Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic |
| SINDO | Symmetrically Orthogonalized Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap |