| Acronym | Meaning |
| FETAX | Frog Embryo Teratogenesis Assay-Xenopus |
| NMRD | Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation Dispersion |
| MSIS | Mass Spectrometer And Incoherent Scatter |
| HD | Sulfur Mustard |
| XPED | X-ray Photoelectron Diffractometry |
| VPSSQM | Variable-phase Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics |
| GISS | Goddard Institute For Space Studies |
| RPV | Raccoon Parvovirus |
| QLDA | Quasilocal Density Functional Approxn. |
| IPPA | Independent Pair-potential Approximation |