| Acronym | Meaning |
| YSAG | Yttrium Scandium Aluminum Garnet |
| PASA | PCR Amplification Of Specific Alleles |
| FEEM | Field Electron Emission Microscopy |
| UFFI | Urea-formaldehyde Foam Insulation |
| MARIS | Mississippi Automated Resource Information System |
| XSAD | X-ray Small Angle Diffraction |
| CCM | Coupled-cluster Method (for Energy Level Calculations) |
| SIFS | Solvent-induced Frequency Shifts |
| GEA | Gradient-expansion Approxn. (in Exchange-energy Calcns.) |
| FORS | Fully Optimized Reaction Space |