| Acronym | Meaning |
| PMS | Premenstrual Syndrome |
| BPCT | Best Practicable Control Technology |
| IF | Interstitial Free |
| AES | Atomic Emission Spectroscopy |
| ATAS | Advance Technology Alert System |
| GVBD | Germinal Vesicle Breakdown |
| LSC | Liq. Scintillation Counting |
| VESCF | Variable Electronegativity Self-consistent Field |
| HTMR | High Temperature Metal Recovery |
| SME | Static Model Exchange (approxn. In Electron-mol. Scattering) |