| Acronym | Meaning |
| DISC | Death-inducing Signaling Complex |
| NIRIS | Near-infrared Imaging Spectroscopy |
| DSPIL | Direct Solar Pumped Iodine Laser |
| RCS | Recoupled Centrifugal Sudden (approxn. |
| SCC-DVM | Self-consistent-charge-discrete-variational Method |
| ISEC | Inverse Steric Exclusion Chromatography |
| GIP | Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide |
| NLCR | Nonlinear Continuum Regression |
| ESIG | European Solvents Industry Group |
| SME | Static Model Exchange (approxn. In Electron-mol. Scattering) |