| Acronym | Meaning |
| SSFLC | Surface-stabilized Ferroelec. Liq. Crystals |
| HSBOW | Helical Spin Bond-order Wave |
| DCBA | Distorted-coupling Born Approximation |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| SIOS | Semiclassical Infinite-order Sudden (in Rotationally-inelastic Scattering Calcns.) |
| CAFO | Consent Agreement/Final Order |
| BCT | Best Conventional Technology |
| MARG | Microarray Research Group |
| ORD BBS | ORD Electronic Bulletin Board System |
| CIDR | Center For Inherited Diseases Research |