| Acronym | Meaning |
| UDWBA | Unitarized Disorted Wave Born Approxn. (for Scattering) |
| BLEVE | Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion |
| SAED | Selected Area Electron Diffraction |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| BSFC | Break Specific Fuel Consumption |
| EPTOX | Extraction Procedure Toxicity Test |
| LCGTO-LSD-VW | Linear Combination Of Gaussian Type Orbitals-local Spin Density-Vosko-Wilk-Nusair |
| LHDC | Lube Hydrocracking Distillate Catalyst |
| SINK | Saturation Internuclear Kinetics |
| TFA | Thomas-Fermi-Amaldi (equation) |