| Acronym | Meaning |
| FBA | First Born Approximation |
| NNSA | National Nuclear Security Administration |
| NACCA | North American Council Of Chemical Associations |
| SHREWD | Standoff Handheld Real-time Early Warning Detector |
| HPPLC | High-performance Precipitation Liquid Chromatography |
| KEDF | Kinetic-energy Density Functional |
| VLSI | Very Large-scale Integration |
| ESES | Environmental Sampling Expert System |
| COHMAP | Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project |
| DCP | Dicapryl Phthalate |