| Acronym | Meaning |
| CELFA | Composition Evaluation By Lattice Fringe Analysis |
| MIAME | Minimum Information About A Microarray Experiment |
| TDVPT | Time-dependent Variation-perturbation Theory |
| MCDF-EAL | Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock-extended Average Level (for Energy Levels And Wave Functions Calcn. For Atoms) |
| OHER | Office Of Health And Environmental Research (US Dept. Of Energy) |
| LHS | Latin Hypercubic Sampling |
| BBFM | Bond-bending Force Model (for Phonon Calcns.) |
| CBDS | Carcinogenesis Bioassay Data System |
| BEAR | Business And Environmentalists In An Alliance For Recycling |
| ABSORB | Arctic Beaufort Sea Oilspill Research Body |