| Acronym | Meaning |
| BCF | Bulked Continuous-filament |
| WRIB | Waste Reduction Information Bibliography (component Of WRAS) |
| CASP | Computer-assisted Synthesis Planning |
| RQTOX | Reportable Quantities For Chronically Toxic Hazardous Substances |
| QUAX | Quantitative Phase-Analysis With X-ray Powder Diffraction |
| MVC | Mechanical Vapor Compression |
| 2MASS | Two Micron All-Sky Survey |
| PP-MRD-CI | Pseudopotential-multireference Double Excitation-CI |
| RESS | Rapid Expansion Of Supercritical Solution |
| EFISH | Elec. Field-induced 2nd-harmonic Generation |