| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACMP | Advisory Committee On Marine Pollution (ICES) |
| CSPI | Coherent State Path Integration |
| CERPIES | Collision Energy Resolved Penning Ionization Electron Spectra |
| TRD | Transition Radiation Detector |
| OW | Office Of Water |
| OTEC | Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion |
| ISI | Information Systems Inventory |
| DRF | Direct Reaction Field (for Intermol. Interactions) |
| TOW | Time Of Wetting |
| FFIS | Federal Facilities Information System |